The Evolution of the United States of America: The rise and fall of a nation

By Richard Castagner

This book provides an important look at the evolution of the United States of America. It is broken into five parts: the prehistory and history of our country, an analysis of the major changes in the last 50 years, where the United States of America is now, and what the future will be for our nation.

Since the early 1960s, something has dramatically changed in the deepest levels of American society. After the brief period of Pax Americana in the 1950s, it seemed as if some invisible switch was flipped in the heart of the United States, and the very fabric of the nation began quickly unraveling. Almost overnight, we went from light to darkness, from optimism to pessimism, and from America the Great to America the Guilty.

A marvelous trust, a country like no other in the history of mankind has been entrusted to us. A country where we have had the freedom to grow and thrive, to be free to achieve our full potential, to shape the futures of our children and grandchildren — that is what is at stake. Freedom of speech, one of our most sacred trusts, is already being taken from us; in its place is politically correct speech, where some minorities can say anything they want without censure or condemnation. A country where all members of mankind are recognized as equal, but certain minorities are protected and have heightened rights — is this the intended heritage of our Founders? If we fail to do our duty, we shall be judged much more harshly than any other country in existence, because we have had so much more delivered to us for which we will be held accountable.

There is a dark cloud looming on the horizon of America. I do not pretend to be able to see beyond the looming dark cloud. I do know that a field of battle is before us. Our young people may not want to die on fields drenched red with blood, but they must battle in the classroom, in the lecture halls, at the ballot box, on Wall Street, in mass media, in the newsrooms, in the hospitals, and in the churches. They must battle at home and abroad and we must help them. We must battle not just for the finances of this nation, but for its soul.

What shall be our future? We are coming, potentially, to a crossroad in our nation.

We are being pushed toward one of three ultimate endgames: the imposition of the socialist state, a conservative reversal of the Nation at the ballot box or another Civil War.

Richard Castagner
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• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 17, 2025
• ISBN: 9798350994476

Richard Castagner

Born 1944 in upstate New York, USA. European and American Indian heritage. Enjoyed my childhood and by nature I have always been an independent thinker and wanderer. I moved to California in my early 20s where I finished college, worked in high tech, Silicon Valley and enjoyed my life to the fullest. I have always lived each day in my life like it is my last day, I hope that never changes. I now live as an expat in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico but care deeply about the future of the United States of America !

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Table of Contents

Note from the Author

1. Prehistory of the United States of America 30,000 B.C. to 1400 A.D.

2. Early History of the United States of America

America in the Late 1400s

America in the 1500s

America in the 1600s

America in the 1700s

America in the 1800s

America in the 1900s

America in the Early 2000s

3. United States of America in the Last 50 Years

4. Five Movements that radically changed US Democracy

1. The transition from Capitalism to Socialism Movement

The Socialist Indoctrination Process

Eliminate Socialism, Feminism and Black Power__Culture Power Tools:

Eliminate Socialism, Feminism and Black Power__Political Power Tools:

2. The Female Power Movement

3. The Black Power Movement

4. The Islamization of America

5. The Indian Power Movement

5. United States of America is at the Crossroads

Citizen Character and Morality

Family and Marriage

Parenting

Education and Learning

Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Religion and Values

Heritage and Passing on Our History

Biased and Negative Mass Media

Biased Entertainment and Hollywood

The Abuse of Our Freedoms

Multiculturalism:

Illegal Immigration and Sanctuary Cities

Strong, Independent Police Force and National Guard

Crime

Healthcare System

Financial System

Political System

Energy

Military

United Nations, World Health Organization and NATO

Global America

6. Future of the United States of America

7. Conclusions

Websites and Organizations

Bibliography

Notes

Historical Timeline of the United States of America

Note from the Author

This book provides an important look at the evolution of the United States of America. It is broken into five parts: the prehistory and history of our country, an analysis of the major changes in the last 50 years, where the United States of America is now, and what the future will be for our nation.

So, what is an accurate picture of America today? In the history of the world, only two nations have been founded entirely upon a monotheistic religion: Israel and America. In examining the history of both nations, many parallels are evident, namely that both were settled by those freed from a land of slavery and oppression, both were founded by a set of ideals based upon the Rule of Law rather than the rule of men (or kings), and both were greatly blessed and soon grew incredibly prosperous.

However, after achieving vast prosperity, both nations became deeply divided between the pagans (or socialist seculars) and those who held to the faith and principles of their founders, especially in the USA. After becoming divided, America lost its place of prominence and is mocked and ridiculed from within and by all her neighbors.

The pagan socialist ideology has greatly infiltrated the institution of religion. Essentially, the church has been ushered out of the public arena and told to shut up, go home, and mind its own business, when formerly it was, in fact, minding its business by educating the hearts and minds of its citizens. Socialism has managed to almost still the voice of the church, or at least embarrass it into silence. They have marginalized the church when it should be at the very heart of our society, where it formerly once was.

I recognize that our time to win the hearts and minds of the American people is indeed short. We have no more than a decade to save this country from socialism.

A marvelous trust, a country like no other in the history of mankind has been entrusted to us. A country where we have had the freedom to grow and thrive, to be free to achieve our full potential, to shape the futures of our children and grandchildren — that is what is at stake. Freedom of speech, one of our most sacred trusts, is already being taken from us; in its place is politically correct speech, where some minorities can say anything they want without censure or condemnation. A country where all members of mankind are recognized as equal, but certain minorities are protected and have heightened rights — is this the intended heritage of our Founders? If we fail to do our duty, we shall be judged much more harshly than any other country in existence, because we have had so much more delivered to us for which we will be held accountable.

Why must we fight? Why must we win, beyond the fact of maintaining the trust delivered to us? We have no place left to go.

In past times of human history, there were places in the wilderness to flee to. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free … I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Remember those words inscribed on our Statue of Liberty? They came here for many reasons, among which were the many forms of freedom: freedom to work for yourself and your family, not the government, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom from want, etc. Now, there is no undiscovered place on Earth to find real freedom.

Our choice at this point is simply to overcome the evil besetting us or to be overcome by that evil ourselves. Let these words ring in your ears and throughout your mind and spirit; if we do nothing, if we leave the fight to others, we will be overcome and many of you will live to see it. If we do not win politically, it might even reach the point where it descends into armed conflict; one has to also account for that real possibility. Do we dare wait for that conflict? I shudder to think of a second civil war, being fully educated about the savagery of the first with its far fewer lethal weapons than are available now. However, it is certainly one of the plausible scenarios that loom on the horizon.

We are being pushed toward one of three ultimate endgames: a conservative reversal of the Nation at the ballot box, the imposition of a socialist state, or a second Civil War.

We have fostered an entitlement society to the point that the poor believe they have the right to be provided for whether or not they work, whether or not they have illicit children, and no matter how they conduct themselves.

We have destroyed the Black middle class, which was thriving in the country until the introduction of the government trough programs in the 1980s, and has created a permanent dependent class that the socialists seek to also bring the Hispanics into. One wonders cynically whether that was about helping people or whether it was simply about creating perpetual rule for one party as they continually advance their aims.

"There is a dark cloud looming on the horizon of America. I do not pretend to be able to see beyond the looming dark cloud. I do know that a field of battle is before us. Our young people may not want to die on fields drenched red with blood, but they must battle in the classroom, in the lecture halls, at the ballot box, on Wall Street, in mass media, in the newsrooms, in the hospitals, and in the churches. They must battle at home and abroad and we must help them. We must battle not just for the finances of this nation, but for its soul.

Our people must see the need to push conservative social values or those of us who see what is at stake must go elsewhere, because the moderates and socialists in the Republican Party, with the entrenched establishment, will take us the same place as the Democratic Socialists will, just not as fast." 1

What shall be our future? We are coming to a crossroad in our nation: either capitalism, socialism or another civil war. It may be that we shall end our forefathers’ experiment with our Constitutional Republic based on a Constitution and a strong religious foundation.

Only time and the American people can tell.

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In-depth analysis and information on the subjects covered in this book can be obtained through nine other books I have written; called the Evolution Series.

This Series includes the history that has been revised or removed from our National Education System to facilitate Socialist indoctrination.

The book list is located in the Notes area at the end of this book.

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1

Clark, Charles N. (2012). Socialism: A Subversive Force (Kindle Locations 1425–1429.

1. Prehistory of the United States of America 30,000 B.C. to 1400 A.D.

Prehistory and history are the interrelated record of human beings; each requires the decoding of different symbols and materials. History based on written documents only covers roughly the past 5,000 years.

Over one million years ago, human history started in Africa, considered the Cradle of Civilization. Creationism, science, or extraterrestrial colonization – I will leave that discussion to the scholars.

30,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C. The earliest known period for inhabitants of America. The floor of the Bering Sea between Alaska and Siberia emerged as dry land multiple times during the Pleistocene glacial advances, approximately 30,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C. During this period of the great glaciers, this land mass was known as Berengia. A flat land mass believed to have consisted of tundra, it expanded to almost 1,000 miles across, depending on glacial flow, or narrowed to 100 miles in width. The glaciers caused the seas to lower. When the glaciers melted, the water contained in the ice flowed back into the seas, and Berengia would disappear under the ocean. This happened multiple times during this period. Human migrations took place over thousands of years. These early residents, sometimes called Paleo-Indians, traveled along the natural ice-free corridors that existed between glaciers. They hunted mastodons and other big game animals of the Ice Age — great mammoths, giant bison, large stags. They also gathered wild plants and fished. Eventually, they spread inland across North America, crossing to the Atlantic Coast; they also migrated southward into Central and South America. The earliest human record in North America is hearth charcoal found on an island (Santa Rosa) off the California coast, dated to 30,000 B.C. The California coast ocean level during that time, the glacial period, was 300 feet lower, and thus today, coastline archeological sites survive only on islands.

12,000 B.C. to 7000 B.C.  Paleo-Indian Era (Stone Age culture) The earliest group of human inhabitants of America lived in caves and were Nomadic hunters of large game including the great mammoth and giant bison. Stone Age sites were located all over North America in all areas not covered by glaciers.

10,000 B.C. to 7000 B.C. The final Ice Age. Throughout North America, glaciers began to melt. Berengia totally disappeared under rising oceans. The melting marked the end of large-scale migrations from Siberia. Over the next 3,000 years, the climate changed dramatically, with corollary shifts in vegetation and habitat for big-game species. Many of the big mammals gradually became extinct, and Indian bands based on hunting big game like the great mammoths had to shift their settlement patterns. (Scholars debate whether the big mammals died out from climatic changes or over-hunting by humans.) The bones found in bison kill sites suggest that herds of bison were driven over a cliff or into an arroyo, surrounded, and killed. These bison belonged to the big mammals of the Ice Age and multiplied into enormous herds on the North American prairies as their natural predators — lions, bears, tigers — died out and before their biggest predator, man, evolved.

7000 B.C. Extreme changes in the North American climate and animal life. The Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated as far north as the Great Lakes. As the ice retreated, the climate warmed, the tundra transformed into grassland prairies, and flora and fauna changed. Mastodons, great mammoths, giant bison, small prehistoric horses, and other mammals of North America began to die out. Evergreen (conifer) forests became deciduous with leaf-bearing hardwood trees. In the warming temperatures, woodlands spread from the Atlantic Coast inland to the Midwest. North America evolved into the land that the Europeans found in the 1400s.

Climate change has been around for a very long time.

1300 A.D. The Native American population. Before the Europeans arrived, the American Indian population estimates range from 10 to 45 million people in South America, 10 to 30 million people in Mexico and the Caribbean islands, and 10 to 25 million people in the U.S. and Canada.

Linguists speculate that at the time of the European invasions in the early sixteenth century, some 400 different languages were spoken in North America.

As of 2016, a total of 566 Native tribes are recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States (many more are extinct).

Despite the widespread impression that Native peoples lived by only hunting, the indigenous peoples of the Americas shaped their societies around agriculture and highly inventive horticultural techniques, which were often supplemented by fishing and hunting. The laborious processes involved in gathering and germinating roots and seeds, and finding ways to store foods, formed a crucial part of the knowledge and technologies of these early Indian cultures.

1400 A.D. European colonization (invasion) started.

The colonization period was an invasion and many terrible things were done in the process, but we must also keep a perspective.

I am not justifying the actions of the Europeans in any way but throughout history: slavery, killing, and genocide have been a normal part of one civilization conquering another civilization. As American Andrew Jackson said in the American Civil War, To the victor belongs the spoils.

The difference between the invasion of the Americas and previous world invasions was the eventual rise of the Socialism political movement. Founded by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s, it arrived in the US political scene in 1901 during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. This political group, currently called the Socialist or Democratic Party, fuels their movement in part with the guilt associated with the colonization process, especially the slavery issue. The irony of this choice is that the American Indian suffered much more than the Black during the colonization period. This slavery guilt is part of the modern socialist powerbase, and they use it well to their advantage but not to the advantage of the unity of our nation. 

2. Early History of the United States of America

Early America was all about discovery and frontier. Mid America was around production and automation. Current America is around equality and kindness. Future America as it currently is heading, looks bleak, similar to the Greek and Roman downfalls and it has taken less time to get there — why?2

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Hartman, David (2012). The Downfall of America (Kindle Locations 70–73). 

America in the Late 1400s

Before 1492, contact between North American people and the outside world was limited. Several theoretical contacts have been proposed, but the earliest physical evidence comes to us from the Norse or Vikings. Norse captain, Leif Eriksson, is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland circa 1000 A.D. They named their new discovery Vinland. The only known Norse sites discovered in North America were at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. The Norse colonies were later abandoned.

The Viking voyages did not become common knowledge in the Old World, and Europeans remained ignorant of the existence of the Americas until 1492. As part of a general age of discovery, Genoese sailor, Christopher Columbus, proposed a voyage west from Europe to find a shorter route to Asia. He eventually received the backing of Isabella I and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of newly united Spain. In 1492, Columbus reached land in the Caribbean area.

The discovery of America in 1492 is a misnomer. The arrival of the Spanish in the lands that came to be known as the Americas was an invasion, not a discovery. And the invasion went quickly. The pattern was established at the beginning. Once he arrived in the Caribbean, Columbus immediately began gathering Arawaks (the local Indian tribe), whom he described as the best people under the sun, with neither ill-will nor treachery, to take back to Spain to sell in the slave markets. It would take less than five decades for the Spanish to make the native Arawak population virtually extinct and to replace them and their labor with Black slaves brought in chains from Africa.

John Cabot discovered the continent of North America in 1497. Sailing from Bristol, England, Cabot crossed the North Atlantic and reached the coast of America, north of Nova Scotia. Like Christopher Columbus, John Cabot thought North America was India or China. He claimed the land for England.

A Portuguese sailor named Vasco da Gama discovered the actual sea route from Europe to India in 1498, around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Thus, in Europe, da Gama’s discovery clarified that Columbus had not discovered part of India and that calling the indigenous people Indians was a misnomer.

For various reasons, including the mistreatment of the native Indians and the Spanish colonists under his governorship in Hispaniola, in 1499, Christopher Columbus was arrested, put in chains, returned to Spain, and stripped of his titles and wealth. He died in obscurity in Spain.

America was